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Brihaspati - An Indian male living in the upper mid-west part of the USA. Lazy as they come, loves listening to Indian classical music and classic rock, bibliophile, oenophile, epicurean, rationalist, dabbles in existentialism and Indian philosophy, amateur tennis and table-tennis player.

Sunday, June 05, 2005

Main Aisa Hi Hoon - aka Badly copied I AM SAM

The jury is out. Bollywood directors suck (pathetically so) in copying Hollywood movies. If there any holdouts to this notion, I invite them to watch Main Aisa Hi Hoon.

This bolly flick easily makes it to the list of movies worth missing. Right from the opening credits, it is obvious that the movie is a shameless lift off of I AM SAM. I was hoping that there would be an Indian angle to the movie which might atleast make it beareable. There was an Indian angle alright - replete with soppy, sentimental bollywood numbers.

Right from the improbable role of Ritu-di to the ever kind Cafe Coffee Day all the characters in the movie were pure baloney. Why does the plaintiff's lawyer have to be creepy? Why should Ajay Devgan be directed to overact? Why cant a distinction be made between mental retardation and Autism? Wonder what prompted Sush to take such a role? Any secret ambitions of aping Michelle Pfeiffer?

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